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Canada Canada History 1867-1914 Fiction Canada History 1867-1914 Juvenile fiction Canada History To 1763 (New France) Canada History To 1763 (New France) Juvenile literature Friendship Juvenile fiction Graphic novels Jacobs, Jane 1916-2006 Orphans Juvenile fiction Sociology, Urban PhilosophyBailey, Katharine
Summary: Radisson and des Groseilliers were French explorers and fur traders. Their discoveries led to the creation of the Hudson Bay Company, Canada's oldest corporation and one of the oldest merchant companies in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2006
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Summary: While adjusting to a new home and school, Echo finds herself traveling back in time to 1816 in the middle of a Métis bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie just before a deadly battle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2018
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2 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIRVermette, Katherena
Summary: While adjusting to a new home and school, Echo finds herself transported back in time to 1869, when Maetis resistance fighters battle against Canadian surveyors for access to land in the Red River Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIRCoulter, Tony.
Summary: Surveys the early exploration of Canada by Cartier, Champlain, and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House publishers 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971.0113 COUStrong, Amanda
Summary: "On a journey to uncover her family's story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land--creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel. In the dreamworld she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls. They stand as a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the Plains bison to near extinction-- a key tactic to starve and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 STRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC STRBlackstock, Cindy
Summary: Spirit Bear is off on another adventure! Follow him as he learns about traditional knowledge and Residential Schools from his Uncle Huckleberry and his friend, Lak'insxw, before heading to Algonquin territory, where children teach him about Shannen's Dream. Spirit Bear and his new friends won't stop until Shannen's Dream of "safe and comfy schools" comes true for every First Nations student.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada 2018
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Summary: Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates--all of which she won. Here is the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the journalist who honed her writing skills at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACOBS, JANE KANFranke, Greg
Summary: "There have been many thrilling and memorable sports rivalries. But none has ever combined such drama and excitement over such an extended period of time and against such a gripping background as the Cold War hockey rivalry between Canada and Russia"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Publishing, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.962 FRACurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CURMattick, Lindsay
Summary: "An imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear, from her early days in the Canadian forest to her travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, all the way to the London Zoo, where she met Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MATMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. Includes a study guide.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2008
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD MontgomeryPierce, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stoddart 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.05 PIESummary: Explore the last 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in the graphic novel anthology, This Place: 150 Years Retold. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through magic realism, serial killings, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since Contact.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 THIGallup, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1992
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 971.01 GALMacLeod, D. Peter
Summary: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham is one of the pivotal events in North American and global history. This clash between British general James Wolfe and French general Louis-Joseph de Montcalm on September 13, 1759, led to the British victory in the Seven Years' War in North America, which in turn led to the creation of Canada and the United States as we know them today. Rooted in original...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books 2016
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Oppel, Kenneth
Summary: Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OPPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OPPEnglar, Mary.
Summary: Provides the history of French Colonies in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2009
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Summary: In this queer reimaging of The secret garden, fifteen-year-old orphan Mary sets off to live in the Georgian Bay wilds where she discovers family secrets both wonderful and horrifying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIMSummary: Prohibition was unpopular with many Americans and Canadians, but for dozens of coastal communities in Atlantic Canada hard hit by a fisheries downturn and recovering from World War I, it was seen as a golden business opportunity. The program depicts the high stakes role that Nova Scotia and the French islands of St-Pierre-Miquelon played during the era and explores how the social, economic, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Stone-Gordon, Tammy.
Contents: Introduction : historical display, commerce, and community -- Toward a new typology of historical exhibition in the United States -- Community exhibition : history, identity, and dialogue -- Entrepreneurial exhibition : historical display and the small business tradition -- Vernacular exhibition and the business of history -- Local history, global economy : the functions of history exhibits in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AltaMira Press 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 973.075Grinnell, George James
Summary: The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens. In 1955 an expedition group was swept over a waterfall in the Arctic region of Northern Canada. Their most experienced person died; most of the gear and emergency food supplies were destroyed. Learn how they made it out-- barely alive-- and of Grinnell's lifelong struggle to find meaning in the midst...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Young Naturalist Foundation. 1976
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Moogk, Peter N.
Summary: An exploration of the character of French colonists in the New World, and of the cultural values that shaped Quebec history and nationalism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971 MOOGouin, Jacques
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Publisher / Publication Date: Methuen 1985